20 JUNE 1952, Page 18

SIR, — In these days many are criticised for demanding more pay

for less work. Mr. Simmance not merely supports, but deifies, this prin- ciple. All he -wants from the pools, he unblushingly tells us, is to get £75,000 for no work at all. He is quite right; wasting half-a-crown on the pools is no more anti-social than wasting it in any other way. It is the willingness to take £75,000 without giving anything in return, not the loss of a weekly half-crown, that is the condemnation of the lottery in anyone claiming to have a social conscience at all.—Yours